The public is invited to a grand-opening reception at the newly opened South Bristol Fine Art & Antiques Gallery from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 22. Located just after the newly completed South Bristol Gut Bridge, the newly renovated gallery is showcasing original art by Susan Tilton Pecora, Kimberly Skillin Traina, Robert Shetterly, Gale Page, Brad Betts, Kerri Parkinson, Sally Loughridge, Steve Busch, Mark Chesebro, and Evelyn Frye. The gallery also contains a few splendid pieces of early American furniture and oriental rugs, supplied by Foreside Antiques of Falmouth.

Starting Monday, Aug. 15, the Pemaquid Watershed Association’s office gallery at 584 Main St., Damariscotta will feature a show by Bath artist Pamela A. Allen called Mainely Color Play. The exhibit of watercolors will run through Friday, Sept. 30. A reception will be held for the artist on from 4:30-5:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 19 at the PWA office as part of the Damariscotta-Newcastle Twin Villages ArtWalk. The public is invited to this wine-and-cheese reception for Allen.

Maine’s Premier Country Show at the Union Fair in Union will take place at 7 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 21, highlighting eight big days of fun and entertainment.

“On May 9, 2016 President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act officially making the American bison the national mammal of the United States. This majestic animal joins the ranks of the bald eagle as the official symbol of our country.” — from the U.S. Department of the Interior announcement of May 9.

The nature-focused paintings – oils and watercolors – of Newcastle artist Helen Warner currently grace the walls of two rooms at the new Pemaquid Watershed Association office in Damariscotta. The organization’s conference room contains her oil paintings, plus a couple of watercolors; the other – with more light coming in the windows – features watercolor paintings exclusively.

It was a full house at the Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta the evening of Thursday, July 14. In fact, Andrew Fenniman, the theater’s executive director, announced just prior to the beginning of the Talking Art in Maine: Intimate Conversations event, hosted by Newcastle artist Jane Dahmen, that he had to turn people away. “We hit the fire limit,” he said.

A longtime summer resident of South Bristol and her sculptor neighbor have created a unique memorial to her late husband. Penny Mardoian, of New Canaan, Conn. and South Bristol, has come to a home overlooking McFarland’s Cove for 62 summers – first to her parents’ cottage and then to a home she built with her […]

For one evening only – Friday, July 15 – The Lincoln Home in Newcastle played host to a 46-year retrospective of the colorful paintings of Damariscotta artist Polly Steadman. The occasion was the second Damariscotta-Newcastle ArtWalk of the year and Steadman was on hand at the event to mingle with Lincoln Home residents and other ArtWalk attendees snacking on hors d’oeuvres, sipping wine, and asking questions about her artistic process.

River Company opened its 19th season on Friday, July 8 in the Porter Meeting Hall of Damariscotta’s Skidompha Public Library with the whimsical romantic comedy “Love/Sick,” by John Cariani, author of “Almost, Maine.”

“The Tempest” storms and thunders, bewitches and bewilders, and ultimately touches the heart. Heartwood Regional Theater Company once again lives up to its wonderful name. A heart can be made of stronger stuff than the soft image we promote. The heart, after all, is the muscle that must be the toughest or we would not survive.